5 Steps to Create a Backyard Oktoberfest Beer Garden

This Oktoberfest, you don’t need to head into town to enjoy Oktoberfest festivities. Invite your friends and family over to your backyard beer garden to enjoy some German fare and music. These five simple steps will turn your backyard into a festive beer garden to enjoy with your party guests.

Seating: Set up appropriate seating for your guests. Long benches like they have in German beer tents will enhance the festive feel.

Decorations: Spice up the party atmosphere by decorating your backyard in German beer tent style: German flags, beer signs and steins.

Beer: Without beer (and cider for the little ones), there really can be no beer garden. So treat your guests to various German beers either with an ample cooler selection or a couple of pony kegs. Some popular German beers include Warsteiner, which comes in light and dark (dunkel), and Hefeweizen. You can also bring a sampling of your favorite crafted organic beers.

Music: Pump in some traditional German tunes, or choose your own party tunes.

Food: German food is the key to any great Oktoberfest celebration. What other time can you scarf down brats and spaetzel with abandon? Prepare a selection of German eats and treats for your guests. Be sure to check your guest list for vegetarians and vegans and prepare a few non-meat entree treats.

Once you’ve followed these five steps you’ll be ready for your Oktoberfest party. Try these German recipes at your bash and you can’t go wrong.

Kristi Arnold is a former newspaper reporter and editor who is now a gluten-free vegetarian mom married to Mr. Meaty, a "normal" omnivore. The culinary odd couple is parenting two kids, a pescatarian with a hot dog exception and a lactose-intolerant nightshade-sensitive meat-lover. Kristi loves writing and cooking recipes for easy, family-friendly organic meals, learning about nutrition and living the simple, green life.

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